Officer Fired After Suing Victim's Family

[The Straight Story]

Officer Fired After Suing Victim's Family

CASSELBERRY, Fla. -- A police sergeant has been fired for suing a family after she slipped and fell while trying to rescue a 1-year-old boy from drowning, according to authorities.

Casselberry Police Chief John Pavlis fired Sergeant Andrea Eichhorn on Tuesday.

Eichhorn has dropped her negligence lawsuit. It claimed there was water on the floor at Joey Cosmillo's home when police arrived. Eichhorn claimed she broke her knee and missed two months of work after she slid on the wet floor.

The boy suffered brain damage and can no longer walk, talk or swallow. He lives in a nursing home and eats and breathes through tubes.

http://www.local6.com/news/14779398/detail.html

[cgrindley]

1. America... it's no surprise that a personal injury lawyer is running for prez (nt)

[denverbill]

6. Yeah, fuck Abraham Lincoln and everyone like him!

Lawyers should be banned from being lawmakers generally, especially when there are actors, career politicians, and spoiled rich kids who would make much better elected officials.

[cgrindley]

7. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican railway lawyer...

and unless you're utterly ignorant about history, his motives for freeing the slaves, the process by which he came to the conclusion to free them, and the way that he prosecuted the Civil War--although ultimately for the best--were not terribly progressive. Of course the Dems at the time were fairly reprehensible, but that's beside the point. Lincoln isn't one of ours. He just happened to do the right thing at the right time. The same can be said of other Republicans.

[denverbill]

8. The Republican Party was the liberal party in 1860.

You can quibble all you want about Lincoln's motivations and what he might have or would have done, but you can't argue with the published Republican Party Platform of 1860 in which 6 of the 16 planks related directly to slavery, while the final 6 are clearly progressive in nature.

The Republican Party was liberal right up until Teddy Roosevelt finally bolted the party and ran as a Bull Moose because, in his opinion, it wasn't liberal enough.

[brentspeak]

9. Let me guess -- you'd prefer either a corporate lawyer or a Hollywood star?

BTW, you forgot to mention that Edwards -- the target of your attack -- is a former U.S. Senator.

[cgrindley]

16. wow

so is Fred Thompson... being a former US senator really doesn't mean shit.

[LanternWaste]

13. I'm afraid I don't understand your point...

I'm afraid I don't understand your point. What are the precise and relevant similarities between a cop deciding against pursuing civil litigation, and a lawyer running for President?

Should lawyers be barred from running for President? Is there some moral prohibition that you believe should be in place to prevent them from running?

Maybe the candidate you're most opposed to was a lawyer at some point and this is merely some clever way to illustrate that...?

:shrug:

[cgrindley]

17. I'm criticizing the cult of personal injury lawyers--who are scum

let's get this clear. If you're a personal injury lawyer, you're a bottom feeder. There's nothing lower.

[kanrok]

19. LOL...how bitter of you

Sounds like someone was bitten by a trial lawyer as a child. How sad.

[dysfunctional press]

20. do you honestly know ANYTHING...?

about the kinds of cases that john edwards took on as a personal injury lawyer?

you might want to research that a little bit before all your gum-flapping makes you look like too much of a bitter moran.

and it might even be too late.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. That poor family!

[Historic NY]

3. Why did the family block the homeowner insurance.........

from settling? Amazing

[cgrindley]

4. Uh... because the officer didn't deserve a cent? (nt)

[kestrel91316]

5. Probably because this HAD TO BE an on-the-job workman's comp

injury. The homeowner was not the least bit liable and the homeowner's insurance should not have had to pay a dime.

[kanrok]

10. Um, no.

There is a W/C case, but that is not the only remedy unless it occurred on city property. A person, like this police officer can maintain (and has every legal right to do so) a W/C case simultaneously with a common law case of negligence against the homwowners, if, and only if, there is negligence attributable to the homeowner that was "a" cause of the police officer's injury. (BTW, that does not mean that the police officer would recieve a "double recovery" since any third-party payment would reduce the amount of money W/C would ultimately pay). There are no facts in this blurb of a story that tell us one way or another if there was negligence attributable to the homeowners. All the article says is that the police officer slipped on some water. That tells us absolutely nothing about any potential negligence or lack of same. Knee-jerk reactions to this story are just that. Opinions are nice, but having opinions based on fact are preferable. Here we have very little in terms of facts, so I can't see how anybody with a fair sense of what is right or wrong can jump to any conclusions about this.

[kestrel91316]

12. How about THIS knee-jerk opinion, then:

This cop is a major first-class asshole who deserved to be fired. Frankly, IMHO, she deserves even worse. I won't go into what I REALLY think she deserves for suing the child's family.

[kanrok]

15. Oh, That's better...

Rational discussion is not in your arsenal, I'm guessing.

[kestrel91316]

18. I'm not interested in a rational discussion of this person who

kicked a family when it was down for something that IS NOT NEGLIGENCE.

Have you ever heard of AN ACCIDENT???? On the job????

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Why didn't she just taser them?

[rug]

14. She was lying in a puddle of water.

Otherwise, a no-brainer.